Word: frenchwomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, both were arrested last week, along with two Frenchwomen and a Brazilian national who were also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...
Actually, through a delicate balance of finesse and commanding personality, many Frenchwomen are already freer than the laws would indicate. Madame de Pompadour, after all, ruled France from the boudoir of Louis XV, and fully three-quarters of all French blue-collar workers voluntarily (so to speak) turn over their weekly pay envelopes to maman, who passes back a few francs for Gauloises and wine. Economically, French housewives are growing increasingly independent. With the growth in popularity of household time-savers like the automatic washer and le sandwich, some 30% of all married women find the time and energy...
Moreover, since 1945, Frenchwomen have been enfranchised, and the nation's 17 million eligible women voters outnumber the men by 2,500,000. Women are among le grand Charles's strongest supporters, a fact not lost on government leaders aware that a presidential election is only six months away...
Since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was enacted as France's basic civil law, married Frenchwomen have enjoyed all the legal privileges one might expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
...Fecund Frenchwomen. The boat ride tired De Gaulle, and when he returned to Paris, a scheduled Cabinet meeting was put off 24 hours. But after a day's rest, he not only presided over the meeting but played host to King Mahendra of Nepal. Later in the week, De Gaulle received a delegation of 14 mothers who have given his "100 Million Frenchmen" campaign a boost by bearing big families, also welcomed a papal legate on hand to help celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame...